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Dr Bartjan W. Pennink is Assistant Professor at the department of Global Economics and Management of the Faculty of Economics and Business (University of Groningen). After his study of Sociology at the same Univeristity he started there to work at 1984 at the University of Groningen. In 2004 he finished his PdH and the defense was at the Faculty of Management. The last ten years the focus in his research is  on modelingen the proces of Local Economic Development and for his research he travels yearly to Indonesia and Tanzania in order to collect data and  to discus joint research with collegues. In this research he also incorparates each year four to six master thesis students giving them an excellent option to write an interestig thesis. In his teaching he is involved in courses on research methodology (master of IB) and organizational theory (bacheror International Business  and  Management (master Humanitarian Action (of the faculty of Arts)). Besides the regular programs he also particitpates in the Honours Masterprograms of the RUG by a Masterclass on Ubunta and Leadership Lab on Ubuntu.    He is guestlecture at the Institute of Finance Management in Dar es Salaam  and also contributes to the AOG -MBA - program of the University of Groningen.

Selected publications:

Jonker, J. &  Pennink, B.J.W.  (2010). The Essence of Research Methodology. A Concise Guide for Master and PhD Student in Management Sciences, Springer Verlag

Tadeo Satta  & Bartjan Pennink. (2013) The role of Local Government Financial Management and Local Tax Revenues in the process of decentralization by devolution in Tanzania   Research Report Globalisation study centre Groningen  (130 pages) ISBN 978-90-367-6483-4

Pennink, B.J.W. (2014) Dimensions of Local Economic Development: Towards a Multi-level, Multi Actor model  Journal of Business and Economics.  Isssn 2155-7950 January 2014 volume 5, no 1, pp 42-48

J.E. Fokkema, B.J.W. Pennink, T.M. Simatupang, 2017,  Coordinating technology introduction and entrepreneurial activities in rural areas   vol. 31, issue 3, 2017. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business

Bekker V, Pennink B.J.W. (2018).  The Natural Resource Curse: A Country Case Study—Tanzania (Chapter 19). In Dorsman, A.B, Ediger, V., Karan, M, B. 2018. Energy Economy, Finance and Geostrategy. Springer,

Herold S., Pennink B.W. (2018) Project Management. In: Heintze HJ., Thielbörger P. (eds) International Humanitarian Action. Springer, Cham https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14454-2_21